Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
i-i inch broad, slightly cre- 
nate, the upper edge auricled 
and truncate, parallel with the 
stem, the lower obUque; tex- 
ture papyraceous, rachis villous, 
both surfaces slightly villous or 
glabrous ia age ; soii near the 
margin ; involucre cordiform, 
roundish fugacious. Beaiiv. 
in the Flore d'Oware. Hook. 
Syn. FiL 301. Neph. obliterata 
i^Hook), Bedd. F S. I. 251. 
Ceylon, central provinces, 
2,000-5,000 feet, climbing on 
trees ; Malay Peninsula. 
(Also in Tropical Africa ; 
Philippines; Australia; Fiji.) 
2S5 
NEruROLEHS RAMOSA. {Beuuv.) 
GENUS LVL— OLEANDRA. {Cav.) 
(Resemblance to the Oleander.) 
Sori round, inserted in a row near the base or below the centre 
of the compact free veinlets ; involucre reniform ; fronds entire 
lanceolate- elliptical, stems jointed, rhizome wide-creeping. 
I. Oleandra NERiiFORMis. (Cav.) Shoots woody, widc-crecping 
but often suberect, clothed with short adpressed scales which are often 
deciduous ; stipes short, seldom i inch long, with the joint below the 
middle; fronds 4-8 inches long, -l-i^ inch broad, in opposite pairs 
or often in terminal whorls, or more rarely scattered, from narrow-linear 
to oblong-acuminate ; texture subcoriaceous, both sides glabrous or 
hairy underneath ; sori in two rather irregular rows near the midrib. 
Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 58. Syn. Fil. 302. Bedd. F B. I. t. 264. 
Himalayas from Nepal eastwards ; Khasya ; 2,000-5,000 feet 
elevation. 
(Also in Central America.) 
